Your school's understanding of the law is bait shaky. You are legally entitled to management time - time to deliver your TLR responsibilities. Your school can not possibly argue that giving you an extra hour which it promptly takes away by giving you a meeting is in any way fair or reasonable management time.

No 2ic. I'm head of Literacy - lead on Independent Learning and do most T&L. Also NQT mentor. I have tutor group.

I'm wondering now, seriously, is it possible to do all that is expected in that time or is it just assumed that I'll catch up [as I do now] over evenings, weekends and holidays. Am I really inefficient?

I have decided that if I can't get it all done [marking, assessment, planning etc] in 3 hours pw then it doesn't get done. End of.

I'm HOD of English, Media & Film and every teacher (excluding SLT, HOY's & CST) have 5 periods a day and 50 teaching hours over a fortnight. I have 38 lessons a fortnight and 12 free periods also in a fortnight. But we have 12 full-time English teachers, 1 including HOD year 7 so timetable are tight at the moment. I have 5 A-level groups in year 12 English Language, English Literature (group 1), English Literature (group 2) and Sociology and in year 13, English Literature. I also have set 1 year 9 GCSE and set 2 year 11 GCSE... All the marking I'll be doing.... eurgh!!!